Understanding how students manage their employability

Employability and higher education: Contextualising female students’ workplace experiences to enhance understanding of employability development

Students, Knowledge and Employability

Citizens are increasingly are provided with choice and customization in public services and this has now also become a key feature of higher education in terms of policy roll-outs on personal development planning (PDP) and more generally as part of the employability agenda. The goal here is to transform people, in this case graduates, into active, responsible citizen-workers. A key part of this...

How Do Experts Manage Their Passwords?

Passwords pose a variety of problems for users: random passwords are difficult to create and hard to remember, and keeping track of passwords can be difficult for users who have many accounts. These problems can lead users to adopt sometimes insecure coping strategies [1] such as reusing passwords [2]. Little work exists on the security habits of experts, who must be affected by the same proble...

P35: How to Manage Anxiety

Anxiety is a mental state that is elicited in anticipation of threat or potential threat. Sensations of anxiety are a normal part of human experience, but excessive or inappropriate anxiety can become an illness. Anxiety is part of the normal human experience. We may speculate that it served human survival during evolution by enhancing preparedness and alertness. However, anxious manifestations...

Students' Understanding of Their Student Model

Open Learner Models (OLM) are believed to facilitate students’ metacognitive activities in learning. Inspectable student models are a simple but very common form of OLM that grant students opportunities to get feedback on their knowledge and reflect on it. This paper uses individualized surveys and interviews with high school students who have at least three years experience learning with the C...